Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
Anonymous
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor